Former Illini Trent Meacham is back in Champaign following the end of his professional playing career and touched on a variety of subjects from basketball, both at Illinois and abroad:
What makes international basketball different than in the U.S.?
We had a game in the Euroleague, which is the top competition, and we're playing in Belgrade, Serbia, against a historic club called Partizan. We get to the gym two hours before the game, and we have a riot squad there protecting us. The gym is already packed. It's probably 90 percent men.